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Help Scout Overview

What is Help Scout?

Help Scout is the go-to support platform for growing businesses. It's quick to set up, easy to use, and allows teams to manage all support interactions—whether through email, live chat, social media, or self-service—in one unified platform. With advanced tools for collaboration and organization, teams using Help Scout are able to assist 52% more customers. Those who take advantage of our AI features see an additional 36% boost in productivity. Plus, you can build help centers and embed support options directly on your website or app, giving customers instant answers and reducing support volume by 30%. It's no wonder Help Scout is a favorite among support professionals and customers. You can get started in just 15 minutes and become a power user within a day. Teams using Help Scout achieve 25% higher CSAT scores than the industry average and consistently surpass their metrics, helping more customers while delivering exceptional service.

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Product Description

Help Scout is a customer support platform growing businesses use to manage all their customer conversations in one place.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Help Scout is the customer-first platform your whole team will love. For the last 12 years, Help Scout has been laser focused on the needs of growing businesses. We’ve ensured Help Scout is easy to set up and use—you’ll be having customer conversations in 15 minutes. Our pricing is simple and affordable for scaling teams. While other help desks and comms platforms built pricey, complex solutions for large enterprises, we focus on being the best choice for businesses that want to spend time on customers. Plus, we’re with you on the journey—our world-class support team is here for you 24/6, and we have award-winning education and classes to help you hone your craft.


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Year Founded
2011
HQ Location
Boston, MA
Twitter
@helpscout
11,816 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
250 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Help Scout is a customer support platform designed to facilitate seamless communication between businesses and their customers. It provides tools for shared inboxes, knowledge base management, and customer engagement, enabling teams to deliver personalized and efficient support. With features like live chat, reporting, and integrations with popular applications, Help Scout aims to enhance the customer experience while streamlining support operations. More information can be found on their website at [helpscout.com](https://www.helpscout.com/).


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Fahim M.
FM
Fahim M.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"One of the best support portal I ever used"
mail delivery was the faster like google mail. their documentation and blogs are super friendly.
Jonathan K.
JK
Jonathan K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Using Helpscout since 2015"
Helpscout has been the cornerstone of our support team for nearly 9 years. We've enjoyed the smooth experience, custom workflows and constant deplo...
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Clear and intuitive platform for managing multiple inboxes within the team"
I use this tool daily to manage our company’s integrated Google inboxes. The clean, well-organized interface keeps distractions to a minimum, makin...
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Help Scout Media

Help Scout Demo - One unified platform
Handle all your 1:1 conversations and self-service support in one unified platform.
Help Scout Demo - Inbox
Respond to 52% more emails from the Inbox, with features to help your team collaborate, stay organized, and respond faster.
Help Scout Demo - Beacon
Give customers support wherever they are on your website or app. Guide them down a self-service path with help content, invite visitors to chat (never with a bot), or send proactive messages with Beacon.
Help Scout Demo - Docs
With Docs you’ll help customers answer common questions themselves in a snap while reducing email volume for your team by 30%.
Help Scout Demo - The customer-first platform, supported by AI
Use AI to draft, edit, and summarize, reducing response times while improving quality Teams using our AI features resolve 36% more emails.
Help Scout Demo - Easily analyze success metrics
​​Analyze team performance and monitor your most important success metrics in out-of-the-box or custom reports.
Help Scout is the all-in-one platform for delighting your customers. Simple-yet-powerful features allow you to handle incoming requests, give answers in an instant, and send messages beyond the inbox.
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Help Scout is the all-in-one platform for delighting your customers. Simple-yet-powerful features allow you to handle incoming requests, give answers in an instant, and send messages beyond the inbox.
Help Scout is the all-in-one platform for delighting your customers. Simple-yet-powerful features allow you to handle incoming requests, give answers in an instant, and send messages beyond the inbox.
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Help Scout is the all-in-one platform for delighting your customers. Simple-yet-powerful features allow you to handle incoming requests, give answers in an instant, and send messages beyond the inbox.
Email just got a whole lot easier with AI drafts! With the click of a button, AI generates high-quality replies to customer questions based off your historical conversations and help articles.
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Email just got a whole lot easier with AI drafts! With the click of a button, AI generates high-quality replies to customer questions based off your historical conversations and help articles.
Need a simple way to give your customers the best support possible? Check out Help Scout, the simple, all-in-one customer communication platform.
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Need a simple way to give your customers the best support possible? Check out Help Scout, the simple, all-in-one customer communication platform.

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Verified User in Higher Education
AH
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Help Scout?

I love the integration between our e-commerce software and Help Scout. The ability to see the client name, order number, amount paid and status of the order without opening the website or any other communication has saved us a ton of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Help Scout?

I can honestly say that there is nothing we've disliked over three years with HelpScout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Help Scout:

Honestly, this product has made customer support so easy for our company. We tag customer questions and can see what is working and not working monthly, our response time has improved significantly. It even pulls support messages made on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook into HelpScout, so everything is in one place. The customer support is second to none. I have never had a better experience with software support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Help Scout solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it to support e-commerce customers after the purchase with any order support or item support questions needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vanessa B.
VB
Customer Service Rep
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Help Scout?

What I like the best from Help Scout is how organized and how quickly I am able to communicate with my customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Help Scout?

Nothing at all! I have no complaints what so ever Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Help Scout:

Do it! Youll employees will thank you Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Help Scout solving and how is that benefiting you?

I work in Customer Sevice. I am able to communicate with all parties in 1 app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gili S.
GS
General Manager
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Help Scout?

It's very easy to set up, and combines email, chat and knowledge base in one package. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Help Scout?

It could use more integrations and it doesn't pick up social media accounts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Help Scout solving and how is that benefiting you?

making sure that support enquiries get answered in a timely manner and by the right person Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Printing
AP
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Help Scout?

Help Scout easily allows our helpdesk admins to respond to tickets, add notes, ping other admins, and distribute tickets as needed. All the functionality you could want from a helpdesk software is right here in HelpScout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Help Scout?

There really isn't too much to dislike. A suggestion I would make would be to allow customer consolidation if integrating with an ERP such as Netsuite. For example, one user might put in a few tickets a month but will have multiple customer records because the email is dynamic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Help Scout solving and how is that benefiting you?

Help Scout allows our business to easily manage all internal and external needs. We have been able to focus on other parts of our business better and streamline most processes due to this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Goods
UC
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Help Scout?

Help Scout allows us to track essential metrics in our business that not only help us correct system bugs but help us support our clients. Help Scout provides us with the tools to prioritize where our CS Team and Engineers spend their time. Without Help Scout, we wouldn't have a dynamic and direct communication tool with our clients. Communication is key! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Help Scout?

We're happy with the functionality of HelpScout but sometimes wish we could dig even deeper into what our customers are doing within our site and the behaviors around when they use Help Scout to reach out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Help Scout solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are able to communicate with clients using Mailboxes, Chat Feature, and Ticket Creation. This has given us even more ways to capture feedback and questions from our clients as well as reach out to them with any updates or answers! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nathan S.
NS
Founder
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Help Scout?

Simple startup, yet powerful features. The all in 1 nature of documents, with help popup, that links seamlessly to the support, makes it so easy to roll out great customer service across new businesses Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Help Scout?

Minor limitations in the API, it still has a much stronger integration framework than many other companies. Once the 2 minor updates I've requested are added to the API, we can 100% automate software selling systems deployments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Help Scout solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Helpscout as the back end of all our systems, but also resell out to clients and deploy with automation for them. Gives us a super fast, easy install for clients Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jillian B.
JB
customer support
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about Help Scout?

I like how you can assign, write internal notes, and create workflows Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Help Scout?

I wish you could embed videos into the email Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Help Scout:

review help center articles or reach out! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Help Scout solving and how is that benefiting you?

Organize tickets with tags and via the search bar and can communicate with other team members easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Janai M.
JM
C
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Help Scout?

Sharing & searchable with a helps out ID Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Help Scout?

Hard to search, very specific requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Help Scout solving and how is that benefiting you?

I love the rating options for out agents. I wish our signatures showed between helpscout accounts and also wish the notes showed up easier. I miss a lot of team notes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
UN
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Help Scout?

I like that it easily works with another app like Aircall Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Help Scout?

Sometimes it goes bananas, which is I think is normal with any technology Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Help Scout:

Help Scout indeed helped our organisation run smoothly! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Help Scout solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ease of merging accounts from different apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
AH
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Help Scout?

We evaulted many ticketing systems, and needed pro-level features (i.e. power user), but with a user interface that makes sense and easy to use while still maintaining access to the advance features. HelpScout fit the bill perfectly! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Help Scout?

The only complaint we have is with the tagging system - some users may like free-form tags, but it makes reporting harder since there isn't a permission to prevent users from creating similar tags. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Help Scout solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a team answering client emails, and in the past, multiple agents would start replying to the same email, and sometimes our agents gave conflicting info - we love the collision detection feature! We also use HelpScout to report on volume, type of questions, etc, which helps us determine staffing needs for the customer relations group. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.